Violent anti-choice rhetoric must end, or anti-abortion violence never will

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She went on to stress how the organisation’s services were vital for her as a teenager with a strict home environment. “My mom was really religious with me when I was young … I wouldn’t have been able to get birth control if it weren’t for Planned P. I wouldn’t have been able to get condoms and birth control and all these things I needed as a normal teenager who was growing up in a Jesus house.”

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She told of her trepidation in getting so involved in the hot-potato issue: “It’s not smart, businesswise, to be opinionated. But then what’s the point in having a voice at all if I’m not going to use it for what I truly believe in?”

However, she joked about voicing an opinion as a woman. “As women we don’t know we’re at a deficit because we have vaginas. It wasn’t until they had a headline like, ‘Even though she’s a woman!’ And I was like, ‘Oh. I didn’t know to be looking out for that.’ [Baby voice] ‘How did this wittle vagina manage that? I carried a whooole movie.’ [Laughs.] ‘How did I do it, getting a period once a month?’”

Lawrence also suggested that the success of the Hunger Games series had altered old-fashioned Hollywood thinking. “I think there was this studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can’t relate to a female hero. But that’s simply not true. And so we’ve fortunately proved that.”